Mixpak FM: Jillionaire

June 23rd, 2011

Mixpak 013 is brought to you by Mad Decent crew member and one of Trini’s finest, Jillionaire. Responsible for smashing down Major Lazer’s Notting Hill Carnival Party (talk about stealing the limelight), running Tropical Bass party Chicken N Beer, and more recently putting out tunes with Richie Beretta and Fellow, Jillionaire knows how to keep the vibes pumping. As if he didn’t already have a jillion things going on, he will also be launching a new label, Feel Up, anytime soon – we expect nothing but big sounds.

This exclusive mix steers away from his latest offerings though, taking us back to some dancehall foundations. As Jillionaire said himself, it’s made up of ‘the guns and girls chunes that defined the late 80s and early 90s’. Bullet bullet!

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Mixpak FM 013: Jillionaire

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Fellow – Run De Dance EP

June 2nd, 2011

This Aruban-bred, Netherlands based fellow, Fellow, has just released a free EP packed full of Kuduro, Electro, Soca, Moombahton and big tropical bass sounds. The title track, ‘Run De Dance’ (video below) is a collab with Mad Decent’s Jillionaire, and it knocks, as expected. Fellow explains that the 7-track package was inspired by carnival:

Most of the inspiration for these tracks comes from Aruban Carnival Parades. Since I was a kid I thought Carnival was a whole psychedelic weird creative party experience and I couldn’t really grasp all the lyrics and sounds going on as they all kind of overlap each other while everybody is still dancing away.

The one thing I asked the vocalists to do while I was recording them was “think that you are in a Parade right now and gimme some shouts as you would do to hype up the crowd in the streets”

Carnivaaaaaal!

DOWNLOAD THE WHOLE ALBUM FREE HERE>>>

Tormenta Tropical NYC

July 2nd, 2010

Sunday July 4th, Tormenta Tropical comes to Brooklyn. This is a cumbia, bass, dancehall, and tropical jams megamix of a party with DJ sets from Dave Nada, Jubilee, Dre Skull, Disco Shawn, Oro11, Uproot Andy, Matt Shadetek, Geko Jones and Jillionaire! Full details here.

Culture Bash Mixtape Volume 1

February 26th, 2010

Jillionaire

Our boy Jillionaire hit us up on twitter yesterday to let us know that “Yuh Love” is catching fire in Trinidad…
Jillionaire Twitter
and today he emailed his new mixtape saying, “I got that sunshine for your ears.” Respect!

Download Culture Bash Mixtape Vol 1

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